The David Cassidy Story

I happen to catch this today on VH1 Classic - channel surfing pays off sometimes! I really liked getting the insight into David Cassidy. And boy did they do some great casting in getting Andy to play David - he was great, looked so similar it was eerie, sounded great and - as others have stated - you can tell he spent time with or studied David and had his mannerisms down.

I gotta say this movie broke my heart - his relationship with his Dad, his reaction to that poor girl's death in London! I think some performers would have been more like "hey, wasn't my fault..." but it really rocked him. When he dealt with the scenes with Jack in Vegas and then when Jack died... he gave a great performance.

I LOVED that they had David come out at the end and he and Andy performed together!

I saw this movie in DVD version. Well, first of all, I would like to say that Kavovitz choice was really great, cos' he looks like David Cassidy and sometimes we could make some confusion about who is who. But there is some errors in the movie. For example, in one scene we could see David in 1973 tour and in another one, we see him celebrating his 21th anniversary... We all know that David was born in 1950, so he should be celebrating his 23th anniversary... Other thing that I realized is that David begun to wear the shell's necklace around 1973 or 1974, not in 1970!!! But despite of these details, the movie is interesting, soft and very nice, showing the career of one most important pop idol of the 70's. I can say that I felt myself very happy and thrilled when I saw that surprising ending... I almost cried!!!

Why is it that it seems no one in Hollywood can make a TV movie that is historically accurate? Forget the performances and technical aspects. I enjoyed this film but why don't today's TV filmmakers do any historical research? When David is giving his famous Rolling Stone interview, which took place while the Partridge Family was still on the air, the song 'Hot Blooded' by Foreigner is on the radio. The last episode of the Partridge Family aired in August of 1974 but 'Hot Blooded' didn't come out till 1978!

After David learns of his father's death, which occurred in 1976, the next scene shows David in a bar having a drink. The sub-title reads 'One Year Later' as David watches Oliver North testifying at the Iran Contra hearings on TV. This didn't take place until 1987! That's eleven years later guys! It seems there are TV Movie makers that either need to study their history or learn to add better. A good picture but don't write your history reports based on it.

The entire production was done beautifully by all involved with the film, in particular, Andrew Kavovit. I gained a much better insite into what David Cassidy has been through in his life. I have definitely added it to my video collection.

You can tell that David had his hand in this and spent some time on it.

I liked the "real" take on things (relationship with father, the concerts, all the chicks, drugs, etc) instead of the other bubble gum versions.

Everyone seemed to get their characters down well. Andy did a great job of mimicking David's gestures, speech patterns, the sighing, etc. He had to have spent time with Cassidy getting all of that down.

This is a good version of behind-the-scenes Partridge/Cassidy. All in all, I've got a better impression of Cassidy...he has lived through what very few people ever get to go through. It must have been surreal to live through that.